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tipped with whitish or very pale yellowish, the dusky base 

 showing through. Tail above mixed yellow, black, and red- 

 dish brown, with yellow or fulvous border; tail below deep 

 chestnut, with a submarginal black band. Upper surfaces 

 of feet whitish. The ground color of the rump and outer 

 side of the leg is darker and more strongly suffused with 

 reddish-brown than in T. chrysodeirus. (Merriam.) 



Distribution — The type locality of this species is Park 

 City, Utah, (altitude 7,000 feet). Its range extends gen- 

 erally throughout the Wasatch mountains. 



Habits — These ground squirrels are particularly abun- 

 dant around Park City, and around the boarding-houses at 

 the mines, where they pick crumbs about the doors. A 

 good many live along the roads, picking up the grain that 

 falls from wagons. Of thirty-five stomachs examined, all 

 but ten contained remains of insects (grasshoppers, beetles, 

 flies, and larvae). Most of them contained also seeds of 

 plants, flowers, and foliage, and some were nearly full of 

 roses. Many contained corn, beans, oats, bread, cake, po- 

 tatoes, and fat pork picked up about camp. (Bailey.) 



TOWNSEND'S SPERMOPHILE 



CITELLUS TOWNSENDI (Bachman) 



Spermophilus townsendii Bachm. Jour. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil. 

 1839, p. 61. 



Description — Ears obsolete; tail cylindrical, very short, 

 with the hair, scarcely twice the length of hind feet. Above, 

 dark brown, with numerous obsolete and crowded light 

 spots ; belly whitish. Length about 7 inches ; tail less than 

 2 inches; hind foot, 1:30. (Baird.) 



Distribution — Nebraska westward to the plains of the 

 Columbia River and from Wyoming and Utah to Montana, 

 Idaho and Oregon. 



KENNICOTT'S SPERMOPHILE 



CITELLUS MOLLIS (Kennicott) 



Spermophilus mollis Kennicott. Proc. Acad. Nat. Scien. Phil. 

 1863, p. 158. 



Description — Form stout; muzzle short, compressed, 

 ears rudimentary ; feet large, claws weak, compressed. Above 



